Chocolate Lava Cake
A cake which has a molten center
Ingredients
- 125 gms Bittersweet chocolate chips
- 85 gms Salted Butter
- 2 Egg Yolks
- 2 whole Eggs
- 100-120 gms Icing Sugar or Powdered Sugar
- 3 tsp All purpose flour or maida
- Butter for coating Ramekin
- Flour for coating Ramekin
Instructions
How to make Chocolate Lava Cake
- Melt Chocolate chips and Butter in a double boiler or microwave
- Take 2 Eggs yolks and 2 whole eggs in a container and beat well.
- Add Icing Sugar in batches and beat well with the eggs
- The mixture should be nice pale yellow in color and beat well till the volume of the mixture should double in size
- Now, add the melted chocolate mixture in egg mixture and blend it well.
- Add all purpose flour and mix well
- Preheat the oven for 180 degree Celsius
- Meanwhile, coat the ramekins with butter
- After applying the butter coating, add some all purpose flour and coat the buttered ramekins
- Add the chocolate lava cake batter to the Ramekins. Batter should be added till it reaches half of the Ramekin
- Once the oven is preheated, place the Ramekins in the oven for 12 mins or so
- Once the Lava cake is done, cool the ramekins
- De-mold the cake from the ramekins and serve hot.
Notes
Baking Instructions -
Every oven bakes the Lava cake differently. You can prefer to set your over temperature from 170 degree Celsius to 200 degree Celsius. It should bake between 10-15 mins.
Also, while cooking in the oven, if your cake starts to burn on the top without cooking the sides, make sure you cover the ramekins with aluminium foil and cook for about 7 mins and remove the foil and cook for 5 mins. Adjust these timings as per your oven. (The motive of this method is to cook the Lava cake on the sides and keep a molten center)
Also the quality of Chocolate you use matters, since the richness of cake depends on the chocolate you use.